Dew Drop – April 19, 2023 (#3925)

Top Links

• Announcing TypeScript 5.1 Beta (Daniel Rosenwasser)
• Writing a Cross-Platform Clock App With Avalonia UI and NXUI (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
• Introduction to Dapr | Open at Microsoft (Aaron Crawfis & Paul Yuknewicz)
• DirectStorage 1.2 Available Now (Cassie Hoef, Damyan Pepper and Cooper Partin)
• What is Semantic Kernel? (Microsoft Learn)
• OData property changes to callRecords change notifications in Microsoft Graph (Matthew McGrath)

Web & Cloud Development

• Need your Blazor sibling components to talk to each other? and How to Migrate Your Web Forms App to Blazor in 6 Steps (Jon Hilton)
• Node.js 20 is now available! (The Node.js Project Team)
• Kubernetes 1.27: Efficient SELinux volume relabeling (Beta) (Jan Šafránek)
• Azure SDK Release (April 2023) (Azure SDK Team)
• A Guide to OpenTelemetry for .NET Engineers (Juan Reyes)
• What Is Observability? Everything a Beginner Needs to Know (Iain Robertson)
• How You Should Treat NPM Audit Results (Lahiru Lakshan Hewawasam)
• Preview: PDF.js Support for Form Fields, Selections and Annotations (Bjoern Meyer)
• Web API Updates with .NET 8 (Christian Nagel)
• Signals: Fine-grained Reactivity for JavaScript Frameworks (Darren Jones & Olivia Gibson)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

• Generate QR Code in .NET MAUI (Victor Hugo Garcia)

Visual Studio & .NET

• My 2023 C# Software Developer Tool List (Michael Shpilt)
• Functional exception-less error handling with C++23’s optional and expected (Sy Brand)
• Reduce Lookups in HashSet, Dictionary and Other Collections With ReSharper (Maarten Balliauw)
• C# Parse Linux stat command timestamp with timezone (Mark Pahulje)
• How to Serialize Exceptions as JSON in .NET (Ahsan Ullah)

Design, Methodology, AI & Testing

• Sleep Better, Stress Less (‘Tine Zekis)
• Smoother rebases with auto-squashing Git commits (Andrew Lock)
• Microsoft Open-Sources Multimodal Chatbot Visual ChatGPT (Anthony Alford)
• Real-Time Messaging Architecture at Slack (Eran Stiller)
• Introducing the Space Git Flow (Evgenia Verbina)
• Top 11 API Testing Tools For 2023: A Comprehensive Guide (John Iwuozor)
• Semantic Kernel Now Available In Python Flavor (John Maeda)
• 2 types of testing – but only 1 that AI can help with (Matt Lacey)
• Semantic Kernel Tools (smonroe)
• Microsoft reportedly working on its own AI chips that may rival Nvidia’s (Tom Warren)
• A designer’s guide to developer handoffs with Figma (Srikar Suresh)
• A good design system makes everyone’s life easier (Sketch Team)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Rapid design iteration in Breachers using AssetPostprocessor and Blender (Jel Sadones & Pieter Vantorre)

Screencasts & Videos

• How do I use SQL Server with C# and .NET? | On .NET (Jiachen Jiang)
• FreeCodeSession – Episode 448 (Jason Bock)
• Being Responsible with Generative AI | The AI Show Live (Seth Juarez & Sarah Bird)
• Building a Culture of Agility (Mike Cottmeyer)
• How to build your first app using Power Apps | Automatically with Copilot or from scratch | Microsoft Mechanics (Jeremy Chapman)

Podcasts

• The Stack Overflow Podcast – Ops teams are pets, not cattle (Ryan Donovan)
• TanStack Router with Tanner Linsley –  JSJ 578 (AJ O’Neal, Charles Max Wood, Dan Shappir & Steve Edwards)
• The Stack Overflow Podcast Episode 555 – We bought a university: how one coding school doubled down on brick and mortar (Eira May)
• RunAs Radio – Project Zero Trust with George Finney (Richard Campbell)
• Python Bytes #332 – A Python, a Slurpee, and Some Chaos (Michael Kennedy)

Community & Events

• Stack Overflow: Introducing Communities on Teams: where domain, practice, and community come together with purpose (Vasudha Swaminathan)
• Becoming a Microsoft Partner (David Giard)
• Gates Foundation gives $9.35M to Seattle digital health nonprofit for diagnostic testing (Charlotte Schubert)
• Twitter made it easier to harass transgender users (Emma Roth)

Database

• REPLACE versus TRANSLATE for SQL Server Text Data Manipulation (Jared Westover)
• ChatGPT- Building Out Oracle with Templates and Ansible for a DataGuard Environment (Kellyn Pot’Vin-Gorman)
• Azure Database for PostgreSQL : Logical Replication (Brian McKerr)
• Consistency Models & Performance: Couchbase vs. CockroachDB (Jeff Morris)

Miscellaneous

• Minecraft Legends is Here (Dennis Ries)
• Announcing four new languages: Konkani, Maithili, Sindhi and Sinhala (Microsoft Translator Team)
• No, it is not a security vulnerability that there is no certificate of appreciation for reporting a bug (Raymond Chen)
• A First Glance at the Spin Router for Rust (Thorsten Hans)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #3689 (Chris Alcock)
• Build5Nines Weekly – April 18, 2023 (Chris Pietschmann)
• Daily Wrap Up – April 18, 2023 (#070) (Richard Seroter)

The Geek Shelf

 .NET MAUI for C# Developers: Build cross-platform mobile and desktop applications (Jesse Liberty & Rodrigo Juarez) – Referral Link